Benjamin Disraeli, 1. Earl of Beaconsfield , war ein konservativer britischer Staatsmann und erfolgreicher Romanschriftsteller. Zweimal, 1868 und von 1874 bis 1880, bekleidete er das Amt des britischen Premierministers. Wikipedia
„Nein, besser nicht. Sie wird mich nur bitten, Albert eine Nachricht zu bringen.“
Letzte Worte, 19. April 1881; er lehnte ein Angebot der Königin Viktoria ab, ihn zu besuchen; gemeint war Viktorias verstorbener Mann Albert von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha
Original engl.: "No, it is better not. She will only ask me to take a message to Albert." - Fred R. Shapiro: The Yale book of quotations, Yale University Press 2006, Seite 208, zitiert nach Robert Blake: Disraeli, 1966
Benjamin Disraeli buch Coningsby
Romanfigur Sidonia zu Romanfigur Coningsby, im Roman Coningsby oder die neue Generation, Ins Deutsche übertragen von August Kretzschmar, Verlags-Comptoir Grimma 1845,
Original: (en) So you see, my dear Coningsby, that the world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
Quelle: Coningsby, Buch 4, Kapitel 15, 1844
„Es gibt drei Arten von Lügen: Lügen, verdammte Lügen und Statistiken.“
Diesen Ausspruch schreibt ihm fälschlich Mark Twain in seiner Autobiographie zu. Tatsächlich von Leonard Henry Courtney 1895. york.ac.uk http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/lies.htm <br class="br">Original engl.: "There are three kinds of lies - lies, damned lies, and statistics." <br class="br">Fälschlich zugeschrieben
Quelle: Speech in Wycombe (30 October 1862), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume II. 1860–1881 (London: John Murray, 1929), p. 98.
Quelle: Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1845/feb/28/opening-letters-at-the-post-office in the House of Commons (28 February 1845), referring to Sir Robert Peel.
Misattributed to Gladstone to Disraeli.<!-- this is unclear -->
Misattributed
The Wondrous Tale of Alroy, pt. 5, ch. 5 (1833).
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Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1876/aug/11/turkey-the-alleged-atrocities-in in the House of Commons (11 August 1876) <br class="br">1870s
From the Enchiridion (1640) of Francis Quarles.
Misattributed
“I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up.”
Popanilla http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/7816 (1827) Ch. 7 referring to the Motto of "Vraibleusia". <br class="br">Books
Quelle: Speech at the opening of Shaftesburgh Park Estate (18 July 1874), cited in Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Collected from his Writings and Speeches (1881), p. 38.
Quelle: Letter to Charles Attwood (7 June 1840), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume I. 1804–1859 (London: John Murray, 1929), p. 486
Quelle: Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1863/feb/05/address-to-her-majesty-on-the-lords#column_96 in the House of Commons (5 February 1863).
Quelle: Speech at the Guildhall, London (9 November 1877), quoted in 'Lord Mayor's Day.', The Times (10 November 1877), p. 10.
That would not make a bad programme for a British Ministry. It is one from which Her Majesty's advisers do not shrink.
Quelle: Speech at the Guildhall, London (9 November 1879), cited in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Vol. 2 (1929), pp. 1366-7.
Book I, Chapter 5.
Books, Coningsby (1844), The Young Duke (1831)
“Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.”
Quelle: Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1874/jun/15/motion-for-a-select-committee in the House of Commons (15 June 1874).
“Though I sit down now, the time will come when you will hear me.”
Maiden speech https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780191843730.001.0001/q-oro-ed5-00003685 in the House of Commons (7 December 1837). Disraeli was being shouted down by other MPs. Compare: "I will be heard", William Lloyd Garrison, Salutatory of the Liberator <br class="br">1830s
Quelle: Speech in the House of Lords (10 December 1876), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume II. 1860–1881 (London: John Murray, 1929), p. 1273.
Isaac D'Israeli, Curiosities of Literature.
Misattributed, Isaac D'Israeli
Quelle: Books, Coningsby (1844), The Young Duke (1831), Chapter 10.
“A consistent man believes in Destiny — a capricious man in Chance.”
Book VI, Chapter 22.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)
Quelle: Letter to Lady Chesterfield (27 June 1880), quoted in the Marquis of Zetland (ed.), The Letters of Disraeli to Lady Bradford and Lady Chesterfield. Vol. II, 1876 to 1881 (London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1929), p. 279.
"The Value of Literature to Men of Business," speech at the Manchester Athenaeum (23 October 1844), cited in Selected Speeches of the Late Right Honourable the Earl of Beaconsfield, Vol. 2 (1882), p. 625.
1840s
Speech in the House of Lords (29 April 1879), reported in The Times (30 April 1879), p. 8.
1870s
“A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.”
Quelle: Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1873/mar/11/second-reading-adjourned-debate in the House of Commons (11 March 1873).
“Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.”
Quelle: Speech to the Conservatives of Manchester (3 April 1872), cited in The World's Best Orations from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Vol. 1 (eds. David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler), pp. 309-338.
“Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.”
Quelle: Speech at banquet of the National Union of Conservative and Constitutional Associations, Crystal Palace, London (24 June 1872), cited in "Mr. Disraeli at Sydenham," The Times (25 June 1872), p. 7.
Quelle: Speech to a Conservative dinner (26 June 1863), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume II. 1860–1881 (London: John Murray, 1929), p. 114
“There is no education like adversity.”
Quelle: Books, Coningsby (1844), Endymion (1880), Ch. 61.
“Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.”
Book IV, Chapter 6.
Books, Coningsby (1844), The Young Duke (1831)
Quelle: Books, Coningsby (1844), Lothair (1870), Ch. 49.
“The fool wonders, the wise man asks.”
Count Alarcos: A Tragedy Act IV, sc. i.
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